Quote Originally Posted by eternal_fantasy View Post
It's a breath of fresh air... as overclocking should be fun and rewarding, and not buying Ģ290 of frustration, as was the case of the Striker II extreme. The blackops has obviously been properly tested before selling it to the end user, and it shows in the BIOS and the quality of the motherboard. It is great for the moment, and lets me use 0.5V less VCore at the same frequency with the QX9650. Need a heck oh a high VTT to reach 450FSB though! (1.67V)
I would say you need more vcore or NB voltage.

Quote Originally Posted by Aivas47a View Post
Have you tried tweaking the GTLs? In my experience VTT of 1.30 will normally support yorkfield at 450 on this board. Even fsb up to 475-480 shouldn't require more than 1.40.
This is Intel board and I would be really surprised that you need to modify the GTLRefs

Quote Originally Posted by GAR View Post
So the corruption is fixed only on the reference boards????? i see SEII is still having problems.....can anyone confirm P05 has fixed the corruption issue with the 790i.
Like always, no corruptions (cant verify anyways lol) but hard times OCing...